Emergency Relief and Recovery Supplemental Appropriations Act for Fiscal Year 2002
Latest action · Nov 19, 2001 Referred to the House Committee on Appropriations.
Progress
Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.
- IntroducedNov 19, 2001
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Establishes an emergency program of health insurance premium assistance for COBRA continuation coverage for certain individuals impacted by the terrorist attacks.
Permits a State to elect to provide temporary Medicaid coverage (under title XIX of the Social Security Act) for certain uninsured individuals impacted by the terrorist attacks.
Makes additional emergency supplemental appropriations for FY 2002, with respect to claims and activities in response to the attacks, to: (1) the Department of Labor for ETA training and employment services and for State Unemployment Security Office for certain payments to the NYS Workers Compensation Review Board and the NYS Uninsured Employers Fund; (2) the Department of Health and Human Services for the Health Resources and Services Administration to reimburse local area hospitals for unreimbursed care provided in response to, and damage caused by, the attacks, and for the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences; (3) the Department of Commerce for emergency grants for public telecommunications facilities, planning, and construction by the National Telecommunications and Information Administration; (4) the Department of Housing and Urban Development for the Community Development Fund, with a portion for a program to aid the tourism and travel industry in New York City (NYC); and (5) the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) for disaster relief, including recovery activities and assistance in NYC and NYS, Northern Virginia, and Pennsylvania, with portions for the Office of World Trace Center Attack Claims and for the NYC Board of Education.
World Trade Center Attack Claims Act - Establishes within the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) the Office of World Trade Center Attack Claims. Entitles to Federal compensation individuals and entities which suffered injury as a result of the attack on the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, and who reside or maintain a place of business in the area south of Canal Street in Manhattan.
Limits claim payments to up to $500,000 for the amount necessary to compensate for injuries (including residential and business losses) suffered during the 18-month period following the attack.
Authorizes reimbursement of: (1) public utilities regulated by the New York Public Service Commission; and (2) not-for-profit exchanges and boards of trade regulated by the Securities and Exchange Commission or the Commodity Futures Trading Commission.
Cosponsors 2
Members who signed on, in the order they did. All signed on Nov 27, 2001.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| D-NY | Jerrold Nadler | Nov 27, 2001 | |
| D-NY | Nita M. Lowey | Nov 27, 2001 |
Actions 2
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Nov 19, 2001Introduced in House
- Nov 19, 2001Referred to the House Committee on Appropriations.
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Economics and Public Finance.
- Administrative remedies
- Air piracy
- Appropriations
- Auditing
- Bombings
- Business losses
- Civil actions and liability
- Claims
- Collection of accounts
- Commerce
- Commercial aircraft
- Compensation (Law)
- Compensation for victims of crime
- Congress
- Congressional investigations
- Congressional reporting requirements
- Consumer education
- Crime and Law Enforcement
- Damages
- Department of Commerce
- Department of Health and Human Services
- Department of Housing and Urban Development
- Department of Labor
- Disaster loans
- Disaster relief
- Dislocated workers
- EBB Terrorism
- Economics and Public Finance
- Education
- Elementary and secondary education
- Elementary education
- Emergency Management
- Emergency medical personnel
- Employee health benefits
- Environmental Protection
- Evidence (Law)
- Executive reorganization
- Families
- Federal aid to community development
- Federal aid to education
- Federal aid to hospitals
- Federal Emergency Management Agency
- Federal installations
- Federal office buildings
- Finance and Financial Sector
- Fire fighters
- Fraud
- Gifts
- Government and business
- Government lending
- Government Operations and Politics
- Government publicity
- Hazardous waste site remediation
- Health
- Housing and Community Development
- Housing finance
- Infrastructure
- Infrastructure (Economics)
- Insurance
- Insurance premiums
- Intergovernmental fiscal relations
- International Affairs
- Inventories
- Job hunting
- Labor and Employment
- Law
- Layoffs
- Location of industries
- Losses
- Married people
- Medicaid
- Medical economics
- Medical screening
- Medical supplies
- Medical tests
- Medically uninsured
- New York City
- New York State
- Office buildings
- Overhead costs
- Overtime
- Paramedical personnel
- Pennsylvania
- Police
- Property insurance
- Public service advertising
- Public utilities
- Refuse and refuse disposal
- Relocation
- Science, Technology, Communications
- Secondary education
- September 11, 2001
- Small business
- Small Business Administration
- Social Welfare
- Stock exchanges
- Supplemental appropriations
- Terrorism
- Tourism
- Transportation and Public Works
- Unemployment insurance
- Urban affairs
- Victims of terrorism
- Virginia
- Volunteer workers
- Wages
- Welfare eligibility
- Workers' compensation
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